Judge: Man Guilty in Canonsburg Homicide

Judge Katherine Emery on Friday found a Mexican immigrant guilty of stabbing a man to death in Canonsburg last year.

Jose Luciano-Herrera, 31, was charged with and found guilty of homicide and conspiracy to commit homicide. He had pleaded not guilty.

Prosecutors had contended he fatally stabbed Jose Alexi Enammorado Medina, a Honduran man whose body was found near the railroad tracks at 11 Youngstown St. in Canonsburg on Feb. 28, 2010.

An autopsy conducted by the Washington County Coroner’s Office confirmed then that Medina had been stabbed and slashed in the neck and chin, and that the manner of death was homicide.

Emery will render a sentence at a hearing set for 1 p.m. June 1.

Canonsburg Mayor David H. Rhome, who attended the hearing, said he also speaks on behalf of the borough's police department -- which investigated the case -- when he says they supported the guilty verdict.

"The whole department worked hard and we feel that hard work helped bring a verdict that is satisfactory to the department, to the victim's family and to the community," he said while standing outside the Washington County Court House.